Daniel Lipinski

Along with helping decide who'll be the two candidates to face off in the fall election for governor, some Southland voters on Tuesday will cast ballots in a closely watched congressional race and be asked to weigh in on subjects such as home rule and video gambling.

According to Cook County Clerk
David Orr
, more than 1.5 million suburban Cook County residents are registered to vote in the gubernatorial primary, a record, and that the number of people casting votes early had surpassed 90,000, also a record.

A little more than 34,000 ballots were cast early in the 2014 gubernatorial primary, according to Orr.

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